Have fun!
Have fun!
DPRK won it once, I believe.
Excellent answer.
A further point is that capitalism goes hand in hand with formal equality. Employers expect the same from everyone (except where employees unionise/organise and push back). One factory worker gets the same quota as another. That kind of thing. Employers accept the logic of capitalism being efficient without question. So there’s no challenge against formal ‘equality’ or capitalist ‘efficiency’. In reality both are a load of bollocks.
Communists have another slogan, from each according to their ability, to each according to their need. @olgas_husband@lemmygrad.ml when it comes to what organised workers or the revolution asks of you, the request/expectation will be very different to what (and how) an employer asks of you. Just because capitalists haven’t yet employed you for mental labour, doesn’t mean that you’re not suited to it. The fact that you can’t get a job in something doesn’t mean you would be bad at it.
Other workers are also far more likely to understand the value and the need for training. If you would improve with physical/intellectual training/education, that can be arranged. That’s one of the reasons unions and revolutionary parties emphasise education among their ranks.
Capitalists don’t want to pay and won’t pay if they can get someone else to do the job who is already trained. Organised workers/revolutionaries see the potential in all workers and will be willing to help you reach yours. You don’t write someone off because they could be fitter or stronger, you ensure they have access to healthy food, clean water, adequate rest, and help them get fitter and stronger.
I have struggled many times to find work. It wasn’t until I read Capital that I understood that it’s not me; capitalism is just designed that way. It’s not you, either!
This isn’t my most coherent comment but hopefully you can see what I’m trying to say!
Terf island sounds like what a really successful cultural revolution would look like, so it kinda fits.
From the comments:
Taxes need to be raised on the middle class. That’s where all the money is. There’s no more money to be raised in taxing the wealthy.
The west is doomed.
The vulture capitalists will want to. The moderates will warn them not to take too much too fast. In the end, refinancing for anything that isn’t repossessed. Rinse and repeat until the empire eats itself. Then:
Edit: ignore me; this applies more to consumer debt and the article is about national debt.
My social media usage always dips when I go on a trip and when I get back. The trick is do not go back on when you get home. Delete the app. Pause/delete your account (whatever the tiktok version is). Make it difficult for you to get back on the app. That’s how I’ve managed to cut any social media out of my life.
I’m also impressed that it can fry a tiny square egg.
TBF if they want to move their wealth to a tax haven in the Caribbean and pay to relocate me as a customer, I wouldn’t object too much.
Scroll up. It comes through in their other comments in this thread, too.
Could be the BBC filter.
That user likes to imply we’re all hypocrites for being MLs on social media.
Me too and I’m kinda looking forward to it.
Let them go. They’ll struggle to leave with their telecommunication lines and their football clubs and their factories and their farmlands. Rich people leaving doesn’t have to mean wealth leaving.
I am actually shocked that something is being done even if, ultimately, nothing will change.
Not unlike the planes.
I hate it when this happens. And it seems to happen a lot.
*At least 55%.
45% know and are resigned to the fact that ChatGPT would do a better job.
Unbreakable glass above the ejection seat.
A similar thing has happened with me. It’s usually when there’s a picture. When I scroll down the picture shrinks, takes up less space and the page slides upwards to fill in the space.
Does it happen more with threads where you’ve opened some screenshots, etc?